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Week 11: Ranking the Ranks — Shorting the Proven Vets … Or Not

Is anybody actually “good” at fantasy football? Ranking the Rankers is an ongoing experiment to try to answer this question. Each week 12 fantasy experts play each other in head-to-head matchups, based on their weekly player rankings. They also play a dim-witted computer algorithm named DAMO (Dumb-Ass Machine Orderer). For the details of how it all works, read this post.

Week 11 Results

Ranker

Site

W

L

PDPM

W (yr)

L (yr)

PDPM (yr)

Eric Karabell

ESP

12

0

14.5

57

75

-1.1

Tristan Cockcroft

ESP

11

1

7.4

73

59

1.7

Jason Smith

NFL

10

2

8.2

85

47

3.7

Michael Fabiano

NFL

9

3

7.5

97

35

7.1

Chris Harris

ESP

8

4

4.5

84

48

3.5

Matthew Berry

ESP

7

5

-0.2

69

63

0.7

Nathan Zegura

CBS

6

6

-0.3

68

64

0.5

Composite Ranker

NFL

5

7

-2.4

55

77

-3.5

Adam Rank

NFL

4

8

-3.1

58

74

-1.4

Jamey Eisenberg

CBS

3

9

-4.8

81

51

5.4

Dave Richard

CBS

2

10

-7.6

72

60

3.2

Marcus Grant

NFL

1

11

-11.1

50

82

-4.9

DAMO

JZL

0

12

-12.6

9

123

-15.0

Best Calls
QB: Ben Roethlisberger over Case Keenum, 14.6 PDPM
RB: LeSean McCoy over Adrian Peterson, 18.8 PDPM
WR: Josh Gordon over AJ Green, 16.3 PDPM
TE: Tony Gonzalez over Jordan Reed, 5.9 PDPM
KR: Rian Lindell over Nick Folk, 9.2 PDPM
DF: Bills DST over Chiefs DST, 13.3 PDPMWeekly Thoughts
The key to fantasy a high ranking this week was shorting the proven vets, particularly Adrian Peterson and AJ Green who both had pedestrian weeks. Then again old standbys like Ben Roethlisberger, LeSean McCoy, and Marshawn Lynch all had big weeks. So it wasn’t so much shorting the proven vets, it was shorting the right proven vets. And there you have it — the key to fantasy football — set your line with the right players.

All Matchup ScoresCell (x, y) is the number of points ranker x scored against ranker y in their matchup. Bold denotes a winning score for ranker x.

KARA

COCK

JAS

FAB

HAR

TMR

ZEG

NFL

RANK

JAM

RICH

MGR

DAMO

KARA

0.0

30.1

30.8

31.0

31.7

36.0

34.2

36.2

33.9

35.3

35.9

38.5

40.3

COCK

20.5

0.0

31.8

28.4

28.3

33.0

31.2

36.4

33.4

34.6

36.1

37.0

37.4

JAS

23.6

29.5

0.0

30.0

28.9

31.3

32.2

39.4

37.4

36.7

37.3

39.6

37.8

FAB

20.9

27.1

26.8

0.0

27.8

31.6

31.8

35.4

32.7

35.8

38.0

39.4

36.8

HAR

21.6

28.2

26.1

25.2

0.0

30.7

30.5

33.2

31.7

32.5

32.8

33.7

35.6

TMR

17.1

24.9

25.3

25.6

24.6

0.0

29.1

31.9

30.2

30.1

32.5

34.3

35.8

ZEG

22.2

25.3

24.9

26.2

25.4

27.6

0.0

28.9

30.1

32.8

30.1

33.2

34.7

NFL

21.2

26.0

27.3

22.1

25.8

27.8

28.0

0.0

33.0

31.5

32.7

33.9

37.2

RANK

19.4

24.1

23.0

21.6

23.5

27.2

27.3

29.1

0.0

31.2

31.1

33.5

34.9

JAM

20.6

24.8

23.8

22.8

25.4

27.8

28.1

26.8

28.1

0.0

29.8

31.5

32.6

RICH

18.8

21.5

21.6

20.1

22.8

25.2

26.4

25.2

25.2

27.6

0.0

29.4

32.3

MGR

17.3

19.7

22.0

20.2

21.9

23.8

23.1

26.7

23.5

25.7

26.0

0.0

29.9

DAMO

17.3

18.6

21.5

20.9

21.5

22.2

23.3

25.7

23.5

26.1

25.2

28.5

0.0

Quick GlossaryRanker: The name of the fantasy football expert.Site: The website for which the ranker writes.W: Wins for the week.L: Losses for the week.PDPM: Point Differential Per Matchup. The average difference of a ranker’s score and his opponent’s score across all opponents.W (YR): Total wins on the year.L (YR): Total losses on the year.PDPM (YR): Point Differential Per Matchup for all matchups on the year.